Lucienne of Rochefort

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Lucienne von Rochefort ( French Lucienne de Rochefort ; * around 1090 to 1095; † May 6, 1137 or later), also Luciane von Rochefort , was the first wife of the future French King Louis VI.

Life

Lucienne was born as the daughter of Guidos von Rochefort , called the Red, from the House of Montlhéry and his second wife Adelheid von Crécy ( French Adélaïde de Crécy ). In 1104, the French King Philip I appointed her father Seneschal of France , and in order to consolidate the good relationship between the family and the royal family, Guido's not yet sexually mature daughter Lucienne became the heir to the throne, Louis VI, in the same year. engaged. However, the connection lasted only three years without the marriage being consummated if one of the Vita Ludovici VI. of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis believes. The engagement was canceled a year before Louis ascended the French throne by Pope Paschal II under the pretext of the blood marriage at the Council of Troyes on May 23, 1107 , because Lucienne and Louis VI. were related to each other in the sixth canonical degree.

Suger von Saint-Denis reported on the reasons for the cancellation in his Vita Ludovici VI. that intrigues by the von Garlande family, who rival the Rocheforts, were responsible. It is also possible, however, that the dissolution of the connection happened at the instigation of Philip II's second wife Bertrada von Montfort , because she tried to weaken the status of Ludwig in every possible way in order to bring her own son Philip of Mantes to the French throne . Guido von Rochefort and his son Hugo von Crécy involved Ludwig VI. out of resentment about the broken engagement for about a year and a half in armed conflicts in which they entered into an alliance with Count Theobald IV of Blois , but they were ultimately subject to the king.

progeny

In some publications you can find the information that the connection between Lucienne and Ludwig resulted in a daughter named Isabelle. But this was rather an illegitimate daughter of Ludwig VI. with his mistress Maria von Breuillet ( French Marie de Breuillet ). She was married to Wilhelm von Chaumont ( French Guillaume de Chaumont ) in the spring of 1107 .

According to the Chronicle of Ordericus Vitalis , Lucienne married Guichard III, sire de Beaujeu , with whom she had eight children:

  • Guichard
  • Gauthier
  • Baudouin of Beaujeu, died young
  • Etienne, not secured
  • Alix
  • Marie
  • one daughter, ⚭ Guido I , Count of Lyon Forez
  • Humbert III. (* 1120, † around 1192), Lord of Beaujeu

literature

  • Christian Bouyer: Dictionnaire des Reines de France . Perrin, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-262-00789-6 , pp. 142-143.
  • Carsten Woll: The queens of high medieval France 987–1237 / 38 (= historical research . Volume 24.). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08113-5 , pp. 160-162.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on Lucienne von Rochefort on the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy website , accessed on February 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ C. Bouyer: Dictionnaire des Reines de France , p. 142.
  3. ↑ C. Woll: The queens of high medieval France 987–1237 / 38 , p. 160.
  4. ↑ C. Woll: The queens of high medieval France 987–1237 / 38 , p. 168.
  5. ↑ a b Information on Guichard III. de Beaujeu on the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy website , accessed February 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Lucienne of Rochefort
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luciane from Rochefort
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first wife of the future French king Louis VI.
DATE OF BIRTH between 1090 and 1095
DATE OF DEATH after May 6, 1137